Actors Collection (page 3)

Joan Bennett (1910-1990) was one of three sisters who all had success as Hollywood actors. Joan appeared in over 70 films, spanning the silent and sound eras. Date: circa 1931

Leslie Henson Golfing
Comedian Leslie Henson (1891-1957) posing on the golf course. At the time he was appearing in the farce It's A Boy! at the Strand Theatre. Date: 1931

Filming at Elstree Studios
Film director T. Hayes Hunter (1884-1944) working with actors Herbert Marshall (1890-1966) and Edna Best (1900-1974) during the filming of The Calendar at Elstree Studios. Date: 1931

Joan Crawford and Mother
Film star Joan Crawford (190?-1977), born Lucille Le Seuer, with her mother Anna Belle Le Seuer. Crawford's actual birthdate is uncertain. Date: circa 1931

Cedric Hardwicke in Role
A portrait of the actor Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) playing the role of Edward Moulton-Barrett in the play The Barretts of Wimpole Street'

Lilian Bond (1908-1991) was an English actress who achieved success in the United States and made many film appearances. Her film The Dancing Partner was shortly to open in London. Date: circa 1931

Frances Dee
American actress Frances Dee (1909-2004) had a film career spanning from the 1930s to the 1950s. Date: circa 1931

Screen Lovers
Matheson Lang (1879-1948) and Dorothy Chili Bouchier (1909-1999) appearing in the 1931 film Carnival'. This was a re-make of a film from 1921 of the same name, in which Lang had also starred

Georgia Hale
Actress Georgia Hale (1900-1985) had just been picked to appear in Chaplin's film The Gold Rush'. Despite a promising start, her acting career foundered with the advent of the talkies'

Mae Murray (1885-1965) the American actress, dancer, film producer and screenwriter, born Marie Koenig. Here she is appearing in the silent film Circe The Enchantress'. Date: circa 1925

Ivy Tresmand and Gene Gerrard
Ivy Tresmand (1898-1980) and Gene Gerrard (1892-1971), appearing in a production of the musical comedy Katja the Dancer at the Gaiety Theatre in London's West End. Date: 1925

Horace Hodges in Lightnin
Actor Horace Hodges (1863-1951) performing in the play Lightnin at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. Date: 1925

John Barrymore and Fay Compton
Actors John Barrymore (1882-1942) and Fay Compton (1894-1978) in their roles as Hamlet and Ophelia for a production soon to open at the Haymarket Theatre in London. Date: 1925

Gertrude Lawrence
British actress, singer, dancer and musical comedy performer Gertrude Lawrence (1898-1952). Around this time she was appearing in revue shows in London and New York. Date: circa 1925

Margaret Bannerman
Canadian actress Margaret Bannerman (1896-1976) appearing in Camilla States Her Case at the Globe Theatre in London. Later in 1925 her career would be interrupted when she suffered a nervous

Dorothy Seacombe (1906-1994) was a British actress who went on to have a film career. Here she is appearing in a stage production of Just Married at the Comedy Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Laura Cowie in Yoicks!
Laura Cowie (1892-1969) was a Scottish stage and silent film actress. Here she is portraying Lucrezia Borgia in the revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre. Date: circa 1925

Mother Goose Pantomime
A production of Mother Goose at the London Hippodrome, featuring Shaun Glenville (1884-1968) as Mother Goose, Isobel Elsom (1893-1981) as the daughter, and Fred Conquest

Flora Le Breton (1899-1951) was an English stage and silent film actress who moved to the United States in 1924. Date: circa 1924

The Revue Show Yoicks!
The revue show Yoicks! at the Kingsway Theatre, with images of performer Marjorie Gordon (1893-1983). Date: 1924

Fay Compton With Dog
Versatile actress Fay Compton (1894-1978) was born Virginia Compton-Mackenzie. Her theatre career embraced Shakespeare, comedy, pantomime, drama and the classics, and she appeared in over 40 films

Leading actors during the reign of King George V
Leading actors during the first 25 years of the reign of King George V: Du Maurier, Playfair, Ainley, Thorndike, Gielgud, Jackson. Date: 1935

Jose Echegaray y Eizaguirre (1832-1916). Spanish engineer, playwright, politician and mathematician. Leading of the Spanish dramatist of the last quarter of the 19th century

Roberta Huby
Actress Roberta Huby (1913-1995) was appearing in Dick Whittington in Blackpool. Date: 1940

Theatre goes rural
With many London theatres closed, this production of On Approval was rehearsed in a barn in Buckinghamshire, then toured the provinces. Date: 1940

David and Primula Niven at their wedding
The wedding of actor David Niven (1910-1983) and Primula Rollo (d. 1946) Date: 1940

Judith Barrett
American actress Judith Barrett (1909-2000), also known as Lucille Kelley and Nancy Dover. Her final film role was to be a year later in Those Were the Days! Date: circa 1939

Joan Crawford and Charles Martin
Hollywood actor Joan Crawford (1908?-1977) with Charles Martin at the theatre. Date: 1939

Virginia Field and Hal Roach, Jr
Actress Virginia Field (1917-1992) and producer Hal Roach, Jr (1918-1972) in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Anna Neagle and Sir Cedric Hardwicke
Actors Anna Neagle (1904-1986) and Sir Cedric Hardwicke (1893-1964) at supper in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Renee Houston advertising Ovaltine
Scottish actress and performer Renee Houston (1902-1980) in an advert promoting the re-vitalising effects of Ovaltine. Date: 1939

Virginia Dale
Actress Virginia Dale (1917-1994) near the beginning of her film and television career. Date: circa 1939

Jany Holt at the Marigny Theatre
Jany Holt (1909-2005), born Ruxandra Vladescu Olt, was a Romanian actress who worked extensively in French cinema. At the time of publication she was appearing in the play Box B at the Marigny

Gracie Fields at Capri
Actress Gracie Fields (1898-1979) retreated to her villa in Capri to recuperate from cervical cancer. Date: 1939

Mickey Rooney and Lilian Long
Actor Mickey Rooney (1920-2014) having his buttonhole primped by Lilian Long. Date: 1939

Olivia de Havilland, Franchot Tone and Joan Fontaine
Actors - and sisters - Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) and Joan Fontaine (1917-2013) with actor Franchot Tone (1905-1968) at the Trocadero in Hollywood. Date: 1939

Ginger Rogers and David Niven
Ginger Rogers (1911-1995) and David Niven (1910-1983) in publicity for the film Bachelor Mother'. Date: 1939

Sally Eilers and Charles Laughton
Actors Sally Eilers (1908-1978) and Charles Laughton (1899-1962) at lunch. Laughton was shortly to play Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and had been tasked to lose three stone for the role

Ann Sheridan in Winter Carnival
American actress Ann Sheridan (1915-1967), real name Clara Lou Sheridan, here appearing in the film Winter Carnival'. Date: 1939

Maurice Chevalier and Marie Dea
Actors Maurice Chevalier (1888-1972) and Marie Dea (1912-1992) appearing in the film Pieges ('Personal Column'). Date: 1939

Peggy Ashcroft and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies
Peggy Ashcroft (1907-1991) appearing as Cecily Cardew and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies (1891-1992) as Gwendolyn Fairfax, in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest at the Globe Theatre. Date: 1939

Lili Damita and Errol Flynn
Hollywood actress Lili Damita (1904-1994) had retired from film-making by the time of this photograph. Here she is with her husband Errol Flynn (1909-1959). Date: 1939

Basil Rathbone diving
English actor Basil Rathbone (1892-1967), famous for his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, here caught mid-dive. Date: 1939

Henry Fonda, Gary Cooper and Veronica Balfe
Hollywood actors Henry Fonda (1905-1982), Gary Cooper (1901-1961) and Veronica Balfe (1913-2000). Balfe had been married to Cooper since 1933. Date: 1939

A Gone With The Wind party
Actress Vivien Leigh (1913-1967), film producer David O. Selznick (1902-1965) and actress Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020) at the Trocadero

J. B. Priestley and Joyce Barbour
Writer J.B. Priestley (1894-1984) and actress Joyce Barbour (1901-1977), team captains in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Writer A. P. Herbert, bowling
Writer A.P. Herbert (1890-1971) bowling during an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

Ursula Jeans and Alec Waugh, cricketing
Actress Ursula Jeans (1906-1973) and novelist Alec Waugh (1898-1981) in an actresses versus authors cricket match in Regent's Park. Date: 1939

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